Category: News
REIMAGINING SOCIO-POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
In an era when political opinions have hardened into political identities, EAUK’s Peter Lynas asks how the Church should live. How do we carry a confident, hopeful presence into cultural conflicts without compromise? How do we hold unity in Christ across real differences of background, ethnicity, generation and politics? And how do we stay both brave and kind in a society that is at once deeply divided and surprisingly open to the good news?
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REIMAGINING AI NATIVE MINISTRY
In response to an AI-Native ministry strategy, Adriaan Adams (MC Executive member) suggests that AI must remain as infrastructure underneath a mutual learning ecosystem, supporting a “ministry with” posture directed towards human flourishing, rather than as its focus or a driving force. AI gives us an opportunity to rethink the entire research knowledge cycle.
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REIMAGINING CROSS-CULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS
The mission isn’t ours, it is God’s. But those who hold power in the missions community (usually those holding the purse strings and prioritizing activities) too easily forget that. To reach nations with the gospel requires a posture change. Instead of doing missions through, with, or by sending indigenous leaders, expatriate involvement must show up differently and now be willing to come under indigenous leadership.
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REIMAGINING AI: FORUM UPDATE
Artificial (aka Assistive) Intelligence use has accelerated exponentially over the past three years — often uncritically. The rapid uptake requires us to take stock regarding the use of the new technology. Here, the forum content is summarised with links to the actual presentations. The forum explored AI’s potential to support translation, training, research, administration, digital evangelism, low-resource languages, and grassroots ministry. Yet, AI must remain subordinate to human responsibility, theological discernment, and relational mission.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: THE CHURCH AS A MOVEMENT
In early 2025, a team of nine scholars and practitioners drafted the statement, “Reactivating the Church as a Movement”. Feedback from within the Motus Dei Network sharpened the language, clarified terms, and strengthened its biblical and cross-cultural grounding. With additional input from a symposium in May, the statement was is finished in September and now published. This essay is an introduction to the statement with links to find it.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: MAJORITY WORLD MISSIOLOGY
A personal reflection based on participating, observing, and listening to different voices at the Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation conference held in Dubai, 8 – 12 September, 2025 under the theme, “Rethinking Christian Faith and Mission: A Majority World Conversation”. The conference addressed four themes: Identity, Holy Spirit, Mission, and Disicpleship, and in this essay Dr Israel Olofinjana presents some of his thinking from the discussions around each theme.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: LEADING FROM BELOW
We are excited to announce the release of our elder, Dr William D. (Bill) Taylor’s latest book: “Leading From Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission“. Known as “Uncle Bill” to some of us, this new book reveals insights learned from six decades of cross-cultural ministry and decades of WEAMC development. To introduce the volume to you, this essay features excerpts from Bill’s introduction and the entire afterword from MC Executive Director (now Co-Leader), Dr. Jamie (Jay) Mātenga.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: OVERCOMING SELF FOCUS
Church Planting Movements (CPMs) continue to be critiqued even as they continue to grow and flourish. More often than not, the critique is the result of contextual bias. Here, Dave Coles presents a corrective response to a Sept. 2024 Lausanne Global Analysis article by Dr David Williams.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: PARADIGMS PATHS & PARTNERSHIPS
In an era of great change in the global missions community the experience of one large group can be instructive as we seek to navigate well into the future. In this essay Kirk Franklin (PhD) shares the case study of what became the Wycliffe Global Alliance and what we can all learn from their journey.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: SE AFRICAN RESILIENCE IN CRISIS
MC Deputy Leader, Adriaan Adams led a 72-day research trip across Southeast Africa to better understand contextual approaches and responses to crises. In this post we reveal key findings and practical steps to help church and organisational leaders build more resilient communities for God’s glory.
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LEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2021
Executive Director, Jay Mātenga proposes a missions forecast update using Mary’s “Magnificat” as a framework to reflect missiologically on the year gone and its potential effects on global missions going forward. The global pandemic continues to frustrate and humble the global missions community.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: ASIA IMPLICATIONS
In Asia, COVID-19 exposed afresh areas of concern, including issues around resourcing, relevance and theology. We need to see an increased sensitivity toward others that results in more culturally-appropriate biblical theologies and practices, that will bless the nations.
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